You let the car in the driveway means you are driving it, you leave the car in the driveway means you leave your car there because of some mechanical,... problems. Did I catch your point?
"You let the car in the driveway means you are driving it" - I didn't get "let" with "driving it" very well, would you explain it again in other form? What is the connection between "let" and "driving it"? Btw, shouldn't it be "on the driveway" instead of "in the driveway" or can I use both?
Dear Abbie, please come to my help while I'm trying to find similar examples of a different usage of "let", as in my response! I let my car into the driveway means that I entered the driveway. Correct me Abbie if I'm wrong. And about the preposition Lucato, here is what I've found from the Cambridge Online Dictionary: I parked in the drive. ("drive" is the short form of "driveway".) So, it's
So, in LL's example, someone is driving the car, and you allow it into the drive, perhaps by opening the gates, or saying that the person driving can leave it there.
I think you can use either 'on' or 'in' here.
The simple past of the verb 'let' is - 'let' • I did let my family kno